Civil War/Reconstruction Review

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

Which state entered the union as a free state and which entered as a slave state as a result of the Missouri Compromise

• Texas entered as a slave state, California entered as a free state

• Missouri entered as a slave state, Maine entered as a free state

• Maine entered as a slave state, Missouri entered as a free state

• California entered as a slave state, Texas entered as a free state

The cotton gin:

• made it easier and cheaper to produce cotton
• was created by Eli Whitney
• increased the value of enslaved people
• All of the above

Which of these BEST describes the belief of "Manifest Destiny"?

• the belief that the U.S. should send astronauts to the moon

• the belief that the U.S. should occupy all lands between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

• the belief that slavery in the U.S. was a state issue

• the belief that the U.S. should prevent European military activity in the hemisphere

Why did people rush to California?

• Religious Freedom
• Silver 
• Gold
• Beaver Pelts 

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state

Why was the South against California entering the union?

• California would upset the delicate balance of the Senate
• California wanted to be a slave state
• California was the scene of violence and bloodshed
• I don't have the foggiest idea

The Compromise of 1850 outlawed slave auctions in...

• Washington, DC

• Richmond

• New Orleans

• Charleston

When "popular sovereignty" is used to decide whether a new state is a slave or free state what does this mean?

• The United States Congress decides

• The State decides

• The Slaves decide

• The Freedmen's Bureau decides

Which Congressional action would violate other previous compromises on the subject of slavery, and fracture the political parties of the United States?

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Dredd Scott decision